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Vishwakarma Award for Engineering Innovation 2024

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  • 2024 Winners announced
  • 2024 Winners announced
  • 2024 Winners announced
  • 2024 Winners announced

Vishwakarma Award is a nationwide thematic challenge to encourage talented student teams to build innovative, deployable prototypes rapidly and with impact.

ABOUT THE AWARD

Founded by the © Maker Bhavan Foundation, the award incentivises talented student innovators and tinkerers interested in developing scalable technological solutions that tackle real-world problems and boost India’s economy.

Vishwakarma Prize 2024

Vishwakarma prize 2024 is organized by Maker Bhavan Foundation in partnership with ITIC (IIT Hyderabad technology Incubation Center). The theme for 2024 is Water & Sanitation, Green Technology & Smart Mobility.

Our goal is to incentivise student teams to build innovative solutions to real world problems in the domain of Water and Sanitation, Green Technology and Smart Mobility.  Shortlisted teams gain financial support to build their prototype, mentorship and guidance from domain experts, and a platform to showcase their solutions. There is further support available for selected finalist teams who the Judges select under “best invention” in each of the tracks. Teams working on industry problem statement sub-tracks have the opportunity to secure internships with our partners.

Grand Jury, Selection Committee and Mentors

Our Grand Jury and mentors are industry veterans, entrepreneurial leaders, angel investors, faculty members who are subject experts as well as NGOs who represent the end users.

Jury Members!

Vishwakarma Award 2024 Winners

Green Technology

Winners

Sustainable and Affordable Modular Structures Made of Agricultural Residues

Team Members: Kusum Saini (IIT Delhi)

Innovation: Modular biocomposite structures created from agricultural residues (stubble), providing an eco-friendly alternative to conventional synthetic construction materials.

First Runner Up

BIOBULB MKone

Team Members: Chinmoy Dan, Aryan Anand, Sudhanshu Kumar, and Ishika Roy (Delhi Pharmaceutical Science and Research University)

Innovation: A carbon capture system using microalgae to reduce CO₂, NOX, and SOX emissions, improving air quality while generating biofuels and fertilizers to support sustainable living.

Smart Mobility

Winners

Autonomous Drone-Based Temperature-Controlled Medicine Delivery System for Remote and Emergency Healthcare

Team Members: Sumanto Roy, Anurag Biswas, Baibhab Adhikari, and Soumyadeep Das (Adamas University)

Innovation: Designed a temperature-regulated autonomous drone for medicine delivery, integrating vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities and innovative controllers to align with the ‘Made in India’ initiative. This solution is set to transform healthcare access in remote and emergency scenarios.

First Runner Up

RegenDrive Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR)

Team Members: Sanya Vishwakarma and Aishwarya Chourasiya (IIT Bombay)

Innovation: Introduced an energy-efficient Autonomous Mobile Robot leveraging regenerative braking for 15-17% efficiency gains. Featuring advanced payload handling with a safe scissor lift mechanism and camera-based navigation, this innovation enables precise and sustainable warehouse automation.

Water and Sanitation

Winners

Harnessing Metal-Organic Frameworks and MXene

Team Members: Harish Kumar R, Mohammed Askkar Deen F, and Sulaiha Juvairiya (IIT Guwahati)

Innovation: Engineered a two-component system to tackle toxic dye compounds in textile effluents. Their biopolymer-based MOF adsorbent efficiently removes dyes, while the catalytically active MXene filter rapidly degrades desorbed dyes, advancing the purification of water streams.

First Runner Up

Aquafy Systems: Retro-Fit-table Multi-Stage Filtration with Auto-Cleaning and IoT Tech

Team Members: Harish Panda and Saraswat Das (Odisha University of Technology & Research)

Innovation: Developed a compact, IoT-enabled greywater treatment unit addressing high costs and inefficiency in water management. This solution integrates self-cleaning and advanced filtration features, offering affordability and scalability for sustainable water reuse.

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“I am impressed by the quality and diversity of the solutions that the students have developed under the themes of water and sanitation, clean technology, and smart mobility. These are some of the most critical challenges that our country and the world face today, and I commend Maker Bhavan Foundation for choosing them as focus areas for this year’s Vishwakarma Awards.”

Meher PudumjeeChairperson, Thermax India Ltd.
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“Vishwakarma Awards provided an incredible platform to connect with diverse innovators, receive valuable feedback, and insights on our prototype from both peers and the esteemed jury.

Grateful to Maker Bhavan Foundation, WIN Foundation, EDC IIT Delhi, our amazing mentors, evaluators, coordinators, and the entire team for making this journey truly unforgettable!”

Rajdeep Singh DevraPhD Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
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“I think initiatives like the Vishwakarma Awards are very important because they promote learning by doing. This kind of learning not only helps students to cultivate and strengthen their knowledge about the concepts, but also develops their interpersonal skills which are essential for problem-solving, critical thinking, and presentation. Our education system today lacks these skills. Additionally, Vishwakarma Awards also encourages UG and PG students to think about the commercial application of their concepts, thus building future operators, creators, and entrepreneurs.”

Gagan GoyalGeneral Partner, Indian Quotient

Open Category

Compete in the open category to innovate in Water Sanitation, Green Technology, or Smart Mobility and make a real-world impact!

Click here to know more!

Industry Challenges 

Unlock your future by solving real-world challenges with Industry 4.0 technologies and secure your path to a top-tier internship and career!

Prizes

  1. Best Invention: INR 100,000/- ( maximum of 3 awardees)
  2. Summer Internship 2025: Participants in industry problem statement sub-tracks have a chance to secure internships with our esteemed partners: Addverb, Reico, and Alkyl Amines.
  3. Certification: All finalist teams will get Certificates and an additional 10,000/- from the Foundation. They may also request for Letters of Recommendation (LOR) from mentors and selection committee members.
  4. Residential Program at IIT Hyderabad:18 finalist teams will spend a week at IIT Hyderabad, receiving intensive entrepreneurial training.

Other Inclusions

  1. INR 5000 towards producing consumables for the initial prototype for the shortlisted teams.
  2. Additional INR 15,000 for further development of the prototype for the finalist teams.
  3. Travel support for up to 2 team members to location up to Rs 12,000 per team as well as stay and local hospitality.

You Should Apply Because

  • You are interested in expanding your job prospects in key emerging sectors.
  • You want to experience working in an interdisciplinary team that is valuable engineering experience critical for your professional career.
  • You are interested in entrepreneurship and developing a marketable product.
  • You are interested in developing an innovative solution that is relevant and has the potential to impact millions.
  • 26th August is the last day to apply for Vishwakarma Awards 2024

Themes & Sub Themes

Water and Sanitation

Green Energy

Smart Mobility

Purification of Water
Low Carbon Footprint Solution
Unmanned Vehicles- airborne or underwater with targeting capabilities [Drones]
Wastewater Management
Green Hydrogen
Surface Mobility [ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance Systems)]
Water Conservation
Battery Technology
Industry Problem Statement [Smart Mobility Using Dual Robotic Arms]
Industry Problem Statement [Low-cost TDS removal system for industrial treated ETP n STP water/Reject RO water.]
Power Storage
Industry Problem Statement [Camera-Based Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)]
Industry Problem Statement [Decentralised low-cost Water purification for rural areas using nanocomposites.]
Lifestyle for Environment
Industry Problem Statement [Geolocalization of UAV Images within Large Area Aerial Maps]
Industry Problem Statement [Creation of affordable materials for the constant release of silver ions in water to provide microbially safe drinking water for all.]
Industry Problem Statement [Design a low-cost, one-person-operated, non-electric automatic pothole repair machine suitable for both tar and cement roads]
Industry Problem Statement [Optimal Path Planning for Multiple UAV Area Coverage]
Industry Problem Statement [Machine Learning Algorithms for UAV Control]

Organiser

Maker Bhavan Foundation

Our Partners

ITIC
Technocraft
Alkyl Amines Chemicals Limited
Addverb
Win Foundation
IdeaForge
Tata Motors
Technoventor

Testimonials

Subheading

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“The Maker Bhavan Foundation has been a very valuable partner for IIT Gandhinagar in strengthening our agenda to embed active learning as a core value in the educational experience of our students. We hope that this partnership between the MB Foundation and IITGN will be path breaking in introducing the culture of Maker Education across institutions of higher education in India.”

Prof. Sudhir JainDirector, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
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“It's been truly a pleasure to work with the outstanding students at IIT over the past few summers. We were impressed by the students' excellent knowledge-base, energy, and passion to help people through their chosen profession of engineering. The students' willingness to work intensively on their inventions caused us to redouble our commitment to mentor them and drive them to produce their best work. We like to think that a program in inventing and patenting is valuable to and appreciated by the school's students particularly given that IITGN prides itself on its modern and innovative engineering curriculum. During our two summers in India, we felt welcomed and supported by the IITGN community, including the students, faculty and staff. We are looking forward to the programme running again at IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Bombay in the summer of 2021.”

Alan Wolf and Eric LimaFounders, Invention Factory Programme, Cooper Union College, USA
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“I found Invent@IITGN as the best place where I could work on a real-life problem, where my creativity won't be confined to just my engineering stream. The structure of this programme not only made me confident about my inventive potential but also made me learn how to respectfully address the criticism of my work. Invent@IITGN was one of the best learning experiences I have ever had.”

Yash SharmaStudent, IT Kharagpur, Winner, Best Invention, Invent@IITGN2018t
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“Working in TL fulfilled the conception I had while preparing for JEE, about how engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology ought to be...It is true that most of the project done at TL are hobby projects, spontaneous in nature, not goal-directed and often unfinished. But that precisely is what makes TL so unique, so amazing. For every 1000 naive attempts, 100 may attempt turning it into a product, 1 may sustain and hit a jackpot. TL allows for those naive attempts in the first place by making it easier to build, by causing serendipitous events. By inspiring.”

Chirag ShettyTL Alumnus, IITB, Graduate researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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“TL has the potential to make learning practical and hands-on in engineering colleges of India. TL at IIT Bombay provides students with a platform led by them who otherwise, would have to rely largely on classroom learning. The time gap between thinking of a project and actually implementing it is significantly reduced with the presence of TL. This initiative has the potential to transform the way engineers are created in India in the years to come.”

Ashima MittalTL alumnus, IIT Bombay

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